Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasakiis an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984. He popularized the word evangelist in marketing the Macintosh and the concepts of evangelism marketing and technology evangelism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth30 August 1954
CountryUnited States of America
simple trying doe
Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.
careers littles too-much
Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.
enchantment form best-interests-at-heart
Enchantment is the purest form of sales
hard-work sacrifice goal
Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.
dangerous
Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.
book writing people
There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.
making-money ifs
If you make meaning, you'll make money.
people mind stuff
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.
needs
You need to earn the right to promote.
skills succeed fortune
It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.
writing enemy good-writing
Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.
change thinking order
Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.
book kids editors
An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.
real empowering life-is
My real mantra for my life is "empower others".